Father Justin Rose | Southern Foodways Alliance arrow left envelope headphones search facebook instagram twitter flickr menu rss play circle itunes calendar
October 27-28, 2023
Southern Foodways Symposium ⟶
Donate Join/Renew
Donate Join/
Renew
October 27-28, 2023
Southern Foodways Symposium ⟶

Oral Histories

The SFA oral history program documents life stories from the American South. Collecting these stories, we honor the people whose labor defines the region. If you would like to contribute to SFA’s oral history collections, please send your ideas for oral history along with your CV or Resume and a portfolio of prior oral history work to info@southernfoodways.org.

< Back to Oral History project: Faith and Foodways in Alabama

ORAL HISTORY

Father Justin Rose

St. George Melkite Greek-Catholic Church

Father Justin Rose was born in 1967 and grew up in New England. He was raised in the Roman Catholic tradition. After attending college at St. Anselm in Manchester, New Hampshire, he waited tables in Portland, Maine for a year. He then attended St. Gregory the Theologian Melkite Seminary in Newton, Massachusetts and was ordained a priest in 1995. He also holds a Ph.D. from the University of California and a D.Min. from Fuller Theological Seminary.

Rose’s first assignment was serving the homeless at Emmaus House in Harlem, New York. He then transferred to California, serving Holy Cross Church in Orange County and St. Philip the Apostle Mission in San Bernardino from 1997 to 2017.  Rose came to Birmingham in 2017 to become pastor at St. George Melkite Greek Catholic Church.

Date of interview:
2019-11-21

Interviewer:
Michelle Little

Photographer:
Cary Norton

Download Transcript

“

"So, as rich and as sensual and kind of satisfying as the festival is . . . we try to kind of give people on all sides a holistic experience of richness and depth. . . I think it also contributes to peoples' knowledge, peoples' understanding that there's diversity in the world and that that's something to be celebrated and not made fun of.” - Father Justin Rose

Other Project Interviews

Interview

Father Paul Costopoulos

Father Paul Costopoulos is the retired parish priest of Holy Trinity + Holy Cross Orthodox Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

Interview

Paul Bolus

Paul Bolus attends St. Elias Maronite Catholic Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

Interview

Sonthe Burge

Sonthe Burge attends Holy Trinity + Holy Cross Orthodox Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

Interview

Adele Boohaker

Adele Boohaker attends St. Elias Maronite Catholic Church in Birmingham, Alabama.

Interview

Shelia Grier

Shelia Grier attends Bethel AME Church in the Rosedale community of Homewood, Alabama.

Interview

Dr. Patricia Outlaw

Dr. Patricia Outlaw is the former pastor of Bethel AME Church in the Rosedale community of Homewood, Alabama.

Interview

Norma Ajlouny

Norma Ajlouny, born in 1953, grew up in the Southside neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama. As a child she attended St.…

Interview

Rabbi Stephen Slater

Rabbi Stephen Slater is the spiritual leader of Temple Beth-El in Birmingham, Alabama.

Interview

Jessica Goldstein

Jessica Goldstein attends Temple Beth-El in Birmingham, Alabama.

Interview

Lucy Heidorn

Lucy Heidorn is a retired English teacher and a life-long Sacred Harp singer. Born in 1936, Heidorn grew up in Sayre, a…

Interview

David Ivey

David Ivey, born in 1955, grew up on Sand Mountain in Northeast Alabama. He often says he started singing Sacred Harp…

WORKING TOGETHER

WE CAN CULTIVATE PROGRESS.

The Southern Foodways Alliance drives a more progressive future by leading conversations that challenge existing constructs, shape perspectives, and foster meaningful discussions. We reconsider the past with research, scrutiny, and documentation.

BECOME A MEMBER TODAY

Alex Raij Txikito

Let’s Stay in Touch

Sign up for the SFA newsletter to have the latest content
delivered directly to your inbox.